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Vampire Heroes (Lore of Vampires & Beasts)

This mod adds two generic male vampire heroes with access to the Lore of Vampires and Lore of Beasts. Also necromancer heroes with Lore of Death, because why not?

SFO version here:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2648772484

Features:

• Two new Vampire Hero types for recruitment: Lore of Vampires and Lore of Beasts. This is in addition to the existing Lore of Shadows and Lore of Death vampires.
  
  
• These new types use male variants.
  
  
• Male vampire heroes use a shield and have slightly less attack and more defense. Their fighting animation is the generic sword & board style used by Empire Captains/Vampire Lords and many other human characters. Although the Vampires lore is a bit redundant and Beasts is less useful compared to Shadows/Death, they are slightly tankier fighters.
  
  
• Adds Necromancer heroes with the Lore of Death. But seriously, In the last edition of TT, their two choices of magic Lore were Vampires and Death.

About Lore of Beasts:

The Necrarch and von Carstein Bloodline Lords already use "mixed lores" that include Lore of Beasts spells. In earlier editions of the TT, vampires could technically learn any magic except the Lore of Life. Since Beasts is not really a signature Lore for them, they don't get access to advanced spells or earthing/arcane conduit. Instead they get a slightly better passive effect from Evasion and their choice of a summon spell (Cave Bats or Giant Wolves). These are living creatures and don't crumble or despawn.

Design Choices:

Basically, I wanted more play time with the rarely seen but kind of cool generic Vampire Lord models, especially that Lay's Ruffles® shield. Unlike Lords, heroes still have hair (power comes at a price). They also don't wear helmets or capes so faction color is displayed on the shields instead.

Warning:

All vampire heroes have female names due to a limitation with agent types, gender and art sets. Just rename the male ones.